High Energy People: Solena Group Management and Advisory Team

The creation of any renewable energy facility is a combination of vision and science. Of financial expertise and hard-hatted construction muscle. Of sophisticated project management and marketing finesse. Of the pragmatic needs of industrial society and the ideals of enlightened environmentalism.

Solena's management team have more than 25 years experience in plasma heating systems, the political and social context for green energy, international marketing and finance, and the large-scale conversion of waste, biomass, and coal products into the one thing everybody wants more of: energy.

Dr. Robert T. Do., M.S., M.D.President and CEO
Dr. Do is the author and inventor of our proprietary technology. While running his own general physician practice in the early 1990s, Dr. Do researched the journey medical waste took once leaving his office. He learned that the high-temperature gasification industry had to date been focused on destroying waste while relying on tipping fees for its income. Dr. Do sold his practice and set out to develop a high-temperature gasification system designed for efficient energy extraction/recovery while also destroying the waste. Solena was effectively born, patents were awarded and several industry trends have converged resulting in Solena Fuels Corporation having a market leading position in the drop-in, sustainable fuels markets. Dr. Do is responsible for the overall strategy and technology offering of the Company and has graduate degrees in Physics and Medicine from Georgetown University. Dr. Do has extensive experience as an entrepreneur, environmental scientist and in executive management positions. Dr. Do has been advocating the uses of bioenergy for the reduction of greenhouse gases to combat climate changes and has been lecturing extensively in the US, Europe, and worldwide on the importance of alternative renewable energy. Dr. Do is a Co-Chair for the Transportation Initiative of the American Council on Renewable Energy, a member of the AMA, a Diplomate of the American College of Forensic Examiner, a member of the National Sciences Council for Science and the Environment and a member of the Nationals Who’s Who of Registered Executives and Professionals. He is also founder of the Green Cup, a non-profit charity polo event held annually in DC for the benefit of the environment.

Hung Bui Quang, M.Eng, MBACFO & Director
Mr. Bui Quang joined Solena as a member of the Board of Directors in 2006. Mr. Bui-Quang has extensive experience in project development and project financing, corporate equity fund raising, and is advising Solena regarding its capital strategy for BioEnergy Plant funding. Mr. Bui-Quang has more than 30 years of experience in the energy sector with Hydro Quebec, Gaz Metro Limited Partnership and International Consulting Engineering firms. Mr. Bui Quang is the former Vice-President of International Business Development of Hydro-Quebec; a major integrated electric utility in Canada with an installed Capacity of 35,315 MW, and annual revenue of more than $11 billion. Mr. Bui-Quang currently serves as the Regional Vice-President of RSWI, an engineering consulting firm active in 43 countries and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam-Canada Engineering Company (VCE) with its head office in Hanoi, Vietnam. Mr. Bui-Quang holds a Bachelor of Science and a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique (University of Montreal, Canada) and an MBA from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). In 1992, Mr. Bui-Quang was awarded the prestigious title "Nouveau Performant 1992" (The New Management Elite 1992) by the Business Community of the Province of Quebec.

Dr. Sylvain Motycka, M.S., Ph.D.- Vice President, Process & Technology
Dr. Motycka leads the engineering teams responsible for Solena's Gasification Island as well as the Waste-to-Liquids plants and the related fuels sustainability compliance. Prior to joining Solena in 2006, Dr. Motycka was a scientific researcher at the Institute of plasma physics; Academy of sciences of the Czech Republic, researching hybrid gas‐water stabilized DC thermal plasma torches. Previously, he designed plasma torch systems for Surfx Technologies applied to the semiconductors, medical devices and aerospace industries. Sylvain Motycka holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University and he received a Master of Science in Plasma Physics from the Université d’Orléans, France and a Master of Science in Electronics and Optics from the Ecole Polytechnique de l’Université d’Orléans, France. Dr. Motycka is co-author of several US patents and pending patents.

Yves G. Bannel Executive Vice President Europe
Mr. Bannel joined Solena in 2001 and has 30 years of experience in market strategy and project development throughout the world. This includes 10 years of senior management experience in the development, promotion and financing of turnkey projects in Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Bannel was General Manager of Sateco, a French group dedicated to designing, manufacturing and selling high technology equipment for construction all over the world. During his tenure as General Manager, Sateco became a member of the top 50 companies in France in terms of sales growth, ROI and profitability allowing for the subsequent sale of the company. From 1975 and 1989 Mr. Bannel was successively the General Manager of C2EI, S&T and Gielmetti. Mr. Bannel holds a Masters Degree in Business and a Law Degree from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) de Paris, and a diploma from Ecole Nationale de Aéronautique Civile (ENAC) de Paris. He has served three years as a Professor of Marketing at the Bordeaux School of Business and published three books on marketing industrial products. Mr. Bannel had been Regional President of the CNPF/French Association of Businessmen for five years.

Grischa KahlenVice President Business Development for Europe
Mr. Kahlen joined Solena in 2001 in the Prague office where he is responsible for the preparation of Solena projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Mr. Kahlen has 15 years experiences in energy cogeneration and renewable energy production from landfill gas. In the early nineties he founded the company PDI. PDI is in charge of using landfill gas from the two biggest landfills in Prague producing electricity and heat for the district and heating more than 5000 homes in the city of Prague. His company implemented similar projects not only in the Czech Republic, but also in neighboring countries. Before the fall of the socialist system in 1990 Mr. Kahlen wasn't allowed to study in the Country's University due to political reasons. In those years he worked as a freelance interpreter. In the time of the so called "velvet revolution" in 1989 he was in the team of Mr. Vaclav Havel, the first president of the free Czech Republic, Mr. Kahlen was responsible for establishing contacts with Germany and was accompanying Mr. Vaclav to German speaking countries, as his interpreter.

Trenton Allen, Advisor
Mr. Allen is Managing Director and CEO of Sustainable Capital Advisors. Mr. Allen founded SCA in 2012, to build upon his successful 15 year career in the financial services industry as an investment banker and financial advisor. Throughout his career, Mr. Allen has participated in over $17 Billion of financings, including public debt offerings and private placements (debt and equity). Prior to SCA, Mr. Allen was a Director at Citi where he led efforts to finance large infrastructure projects including water, wastewater, conventional and renewable energy and energy efficiency for utility, commercial and governmental clients. In 2011, Mr. Allen led the groundbreaking $67 million Energy Efficiency Revenue Bond financing for the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (“SEU”) which provided a scaled capital markets solution for financing energy efficiency. Prior to Citi, Mr. Allen served as the Head of the Quantitative Strategies Group afor Public Financial Management, the nation’s leading municipal financial advisory firm.

Mr. Allen serves as an Adjunct Instructor for the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware teaching a graduate level course titled “Sustainable Energy Finance”. Mr. Allen is a frequent speaker at major energy conferences and is widely regarded as a thought leader in the financing of clean energy projects. Mr. Allen has served on numerous advisory boards including an appointment to the Green Jobs/Green NY Advisory Board and the Finance Solution Working Group for the US DOE’s State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network. Mr. Allen is a graduate of Harvard College where he majored in chemistry.